[NNTP] Interesting server behaviour

Ade Lovett ade at lovett.com
Mon Jan 2 03:09:42 PST 2012


On 01/01/12 18:56, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yeah.  This unfortunately was something that we were somewhat expecting,
> given how long the standardization process took and the gentle decline of
> NNTP technology in general.  Not a lot of active work is going on in this
> area, so there hasn't been a lot of incentive to refit older software and
> move into compliance with the standard.

Not to mention that a considerable chunk of the old guard in charge of 
large server farms have moved on to pastures new.

Mine's the coat with "Yahoo!" written on the back.  At least it will be 
in a week or so.

Cheerio.

-aDe




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